Mike Brown,
the brains (or, properly, brain cell) behind the “Truth Claims” Essays hosted
by John Dehlin has recently been interviewed by Dehlin himself. To understand
his scholarly acumen: (1) he admits to having never studied the Church and its history until 2013 and admits to still being clueless as to who Truman Madsen is (akin to a young earth creationist who claims to be an expert on macro
evolution not knowing who Stephen Jay Gould is) and (2) thinks Joseph Smith was speaking
about himself in D&C 135:3 (a document written after Joseph Smith was
killed . . . )
The youtube
equivalent of waterboarding I had to endure listening to his notwithstanding,
it is a good excuse to plug again the responses to the essays:
